Citation

Scripture EW. Br. J. Psychiatry 1916; 62(259): 698-719.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1916, Royal College of Psychiatry)

DOI

10.1192/bjp.62.259.698

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The study of nervous and mental conditions in humans consists of a study of their reactions--that is, of their responses to stimuli. By using stimuli of sound or light to which the person must respond by a voluntary movement, some degree of simple mental activity is involved....

Language: en

Cited in: Burnham JC (2009). Accident Prone: A history of technology, psychology, and misfits of the machine age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-08117-5. The book was favorably reviewed by David Hemenway in Injury Prevention (2011), doi: 10.1136/ip.2011.031658.



Special Thanks to Dr. Burnham for providing an electronic copy of the bibliographic notes that accompany each chapter. This greatly facilitated adding previously unidentified records to the SafetyLit database. SafetyLit users may obtain a listing of the book's references by searching using the following Textword(s) Exact query: "Burnham-Accident-Prone".